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04 June, 2011

Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice

The PinchukArtCentre and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation are proud to present the exhibition “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice”, featuring 19 artists from 18 different countries who were shortlisted in the first global art prize competition.

The project — an official Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia — will be on view at the Palazzo Papadopoli from 4 June till 7 August, 2011. The hours are 10:00 – 18:00 daily (closed on Mondays).

The exhibition showcases 19 independent artists’ statements, including the winners, Cinthia Marcelle (Main Prize), Nicolae Mircea (Special Prize) and Artem Volokytin, the first winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2009.

This complex and dynamic view of a new generation of artists will be a major contribution to the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, “ILLUMInations,” whose title literally draws attention to the importance of global artistic developments.

With its strength and innovative profile, “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice” embodies this forward thinking. Of the groups of works to be shown, 13 were made especially for the Future Generation Art Prize, and 7 will be given their premieres in Venice.

The balance between excess and economy is carried off slightly more elegantly 10 minutes east, at an exhibition for the 19 artists on the shortlist for Ukranian billionaire Victor Pinchuk's $100,000 Future Generation Artist Prize. The award, now in its third year, is open to any artist under 35 who applies online.

The prize's star-studded board and jury-including Jeff Koons, Robert Storr, and Glenn Lowry (who explained his role as board member to ARTINFO as that of "comforter") lent it instant art-world cachet when it emerged three years ago. Last year's contest drew over 6,000 applications from 125 countries.

Now for the first time, 2010's winner, Brazilian video artist and photographer Cinthia Marcelle, is exhibiting her winning films at the Biennale alongside 2009 winner Artem Volokytin and the other finalists, seven of whom made site-specific work — on relatively little notice, according to a few artists — for the event.